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Marvel at its rests, gasp at the eighth notes, gape at the hand-written E-sharps! Then create your own rendition of the American art-poppers' forthcoming track These days, there's nothing surprising about a band releasing a single as a free download. But while Coldplay and the Charlatans mess around with MP3s, and Radiohead put laser video footage online, Deerhoof are trying a different approach. Sure, you can download Fresh Born, the single from their forthcoming album. However, you will have to play the damn thing yourself. Because, for the moment, Deerhoof are just giving away the sheet music. The San Francisco band are beloved for their weirdness, but this is one of the art-pop group's strangest projects yet. Fresh Born's sheet music is available, replete with lyrics, at the Deerhoof website. Marvel at its rests, gasp at the eighth notes, gape at the hand-written E-sharps! Though the band promise that their version of Fresh Born will be available soon, they ask that in the meantime people make their own renditions. And this their fans have done – starting with members of the crowd at last weekend's gig in Brooklyn. In a video for WNYC, Deerhoof explained their motivation. "For any band attempting to put out recorded music, the topic inevitably is broached: 'What are you going to do about leaking?' Your songs are going to leak too early and no one's going to buy it. So we came up with this way of leaking it on purpose. We'll leak the song - the platonic, abstract, ideal version, in sheet music form - in the hope that someone will look at it and maybe record their own version." Fan versions of Fresh Born can be uploaded to a dedicated website, where they will soon be available for download. Offend Maggie, Deerhoof's thirteenth album, is released on October 6. Only CD and vinyl versions have been announced so far, but perhaps there's a platonic, abstract, ideal (and paper) edition on the way. Sean Michaels guardian.co.uk, Thursday July 24, 2008 http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/jul/24/deerhoof.leak.new.single

Have a good flight Angie :kiss:

Sounded like he said The Dubliners

Thats so cool, Lori :D

Moves to revolutionise music downloading were unveiled today, including a plan for an annual fee for the right to copy unlimited tracks from the internet. Chris Martin of Coldplay, one of the major acts whose music is regularly downloaded illegally But parents of teenagers who illegally download music face being blacklisted and having their internet service curbed. Households that ignore warnings could be subjected to online surveillance and have their internet speeds cut to make downloading large files more difficult. Some 6.5million UK computer users download files illegally and the practice is expected to cost the music industry up to £1billion in lost CD sales over the next five years. The new move is part of a major drive to clamp down on illegal downloading of music and films, uniting Britain's six biggest internet service providers (ISPs) and backed by the Government. The fightback against online piracy will begin with letters from the ISPs to hundreds of thousands of the most prolific downloaders to inform them that their activity has been detected and is being monitored. Parents of minors who illegally download music such as Coldplay's new Viva La Vida album will be sent letters telling them what their children have been doing. It means many parents face discovering for the first time that their children have been using bedroom computers and laptops to become internet pirates. All six big ISPs - BT, Virgin Media, Orange, Tiscali, BSkyB and Carphone Warehouse - were today announcing they have signed up to send out 'informative letters' to those customers identified as illegal file sharers by the British Phonographic Industry. In return for cooperation from the ISPs, the Government has backed off from a tough proposal to disconnect broadband services for users caught out three times. Such a 'three strikes and you're out' plan will be introduced next month in France. At the same time as monitoring and punishing those who download illegally - outlawed under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 - the industry is looking at making it easier to buy music online legally. Illegal download: Music pirates have targeted Coldplay's new album Viva La Vida Culture Secretary Andy Burnham is backing calls from some sectors of the music industry for a levy of up to £30 on internet users who want to download music. The money raised by the levy would be channelled back to the copyright owners. Fergal Sharkey, the former Undertones singer who is now chief executive of British Music Rights, the body that represents musicians, told the Times: 'This is something of a step into the unknown for the internet providers, music industries and ministers. 'But we can't go on without it - no business can survive after losing as much revenue as the music industry has.' Mr Sharkey told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme the agreement was a 'first step' and the details would now have to be worked out. 'Personally, I could envisage at one end of the scale, for nothing more than a couple of pounds a month, being allowed to download X amount of tracks, and possibly at the other end of the scale for a slightly larger sum of money there is the entire catalogue of the music industry and you can have of it as much as you want as frequently as you want, and any number of variations in between,' he said. ISPs and film and music companies are expected to develop a new code of practice together on how they will deal with infringements, and the Government will then look at their proposals and consider how they can be backed up by new laws. Downloading music and films has become one of the fastest-growing areas of the entertainment industry - despite concerns about piracy - as internet speeds have increased over the past decade. In September 2004 the first official download chart, based on legal downloads, was unveiled, with Westlife's Flying Without Wings at number one. Tracks legally downloaded outsold physical singles for the first time on the final week of that year. The following year there were 26 million legal single-track downloads - a fourfold increase on 2004. In January 2006, legal downloads overtook illegal file sharing in the UK for the first time, with five per cent of internet users regularly downloading music from legal sites, compared with four per cent who swap files illegally. But paid downloads made up just nine per cent of respondents' digital music collections while 'free' downloads constituted 27 per cent, according to research group the Leading Question. Last year nearly 78 million singles and more than six million albums were legally downloaded. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1038151/30-annual-tax-unlimited-music-downloads-biggest-attack-internet-pirates.html

its a cool piccie. if thats you looking shit, i'd hate to meet you looking stunning :P

that's part of the discussion. If you'd like fresh categories, what would you suggest and which category would they replace?

not til the end of the year :) When it first started it took a few weeks at Christmas, but it has evolved into a bigger awards list and takes a lot more time & energy to organise. Dontcha worry, once voting time comes around, Awards 2008 will have its very own sub-forum. :D

You might be a big fish, in a little pond. Those are the lyrics I just heard Chris Martin sing from the United Center stage on the second night of their stop in Chicago. They are on stage right now. Just before I came in to write, they played ‘Yellow’ to a rapturous reception, literally lighting up the arena with that song, both in colour and voice. Oxfam had a massive 1143 great Chicagoans signed up last night, and it looks like a similar amount again tonight. The audiences seem really keen to find out more. The energy of the volunteers has been great! They are all in there enjoying the show right now. Gives me a chance to scribble a bit on these keys. As soon as the show is done, it’s off to Philadelphia. 12 hours on the tour bus…! It will be a good chance for a nice long snooze. Oh, there go the band, running down the corridor for the encore. Right, i’m off to check on the tables and try to catch the last song.. http://www.oxfamblogs.org/coldplay/?p=30

The Oxfam Blog now has its own WIki page. The link is in the general Oxfam page. I've also added the 2007 Latin AMerica Tour Blog & the 2005 European tour blog (although most of that doesn't have its accompanying photos yet)

You might be a big fish, in a little pond. Those are the lyrics I just heard Chris Martin sing from the United Center stage on the second night of their stop in Chicago. They are on stage right now. Just before I came in to write, they played ‘Yellow’ to a rapturous reception, literally lighting up the arena with that song, both in colour and voice. Oxfam had a massive 1143 great Chicagoans signed up last night, and it looks like a similar amount again tonight. The audiences seem really keen to find out more. The energy of the volunteers has been great! They are all in there enjoying the show right now. Gives me a chance to scribble a bit on these keys. As soon as the show is done, it’s off to Philadelphia. 12 hours on the tour bus…! It will be a good chance for a nice long snooze. Oh, there go the band, running down the corridor for the encore. Right, i’m off to check on the tables and try to catch the last song.. http://www.oxfamblogs.org/coldplay/?p=30

Roadie #42 - Blog #13 July 23, 2008 9:47 pm Coldplay in a fan's back garden Last week the band had a crazy day where they finished the Jay Leno show and headed off to play their first ever barbeque (in a fans back garden!). It sounded like a ridiculous idea, but we got there it turned out to be really rather wonderful. Here's a little home movie of it. R#42. http://www.coldplay.com/newsdetail.php?id=76 (I can't work out how to get the embed code so you'll have to go to the site :P)

Chris apparently mentioned that they were filming in chicago for a DVD http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2458974#post2458974 but then they filmed Toronto before and that never materialised on DVD

Angie, Mel & Lori - Congrats :kiss: looks like chris did you a favour when he pointed out the Reign Of Jonny sign :laugh3: And nice idea with the Phil is Hot sign :D So glad the stalking worked out :) Everyone else - ty for the reviews & vids so far :D I don't think I need to say the next bit, will just post the link for the beginnings of .... http://wiki.coldplaying.com/index.php/23_July_2008:_United_Center%2C_Chicago%2C_IL%2C_USA

but you don't tell anyone who you are and we all have to try and work out who the fake account belongs to

you can add them to the calendar, then it shows at the bottom of the front page :D http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/calendar.php

I hope not!! Do I need to go downstairs and check Ian's ok? :laugh3:

:o serves him right though :laugh3:

Coldplay mixes Big Music with a little goofiness On its 2006 tour, Coldplay figured out how to supersize its shows. Once a fluff-up-the-pillow band of balladeers, built on Chris Martin's falsetto voice and upright piano, the British quartet muscled up and swung for the rafters, in keeping with its status as a multimillion-selling franchise capable of filling sports arenas around the globe. With its fourth and latest album, the cumbersomely titled "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends," Coldplay tackles big subjects (death, the afterlife) with an equally big sound, brimming with nuances sculpted by producer Brian Eno. It's the type of album designed to fill stadiums, and Coldplay swept into the United Center on Tuesday for the first of two concerts with a certain been-there, done-that confidence, if not swagger. "Swagger" and "Coldplay" are words that rarely belong in the same sentence, because Martin and his bandmates have always carried themselves with a scruffy, almost sheepish charm. Yet with "In My Place," Martin was winding up his left arm and thrusting it skyward like he was throwing uppercuts at the heavens each time the chorus kicked in. At other moments, he was the slightly goofy, ever-smiling, ever-earnest cheerleader, U.K. rock's answer to dithering actor Hugh Grant. Martin pranced around the stage with gawky enthusiasm, leading singalongs at every opportunity and waving his arms like a traffic cop at a busy intersection. It all worked because he's got the Big Music to back it up. Drummer Will Champion rattled his drum kit with eye-catching flourishes, jutting his left arm upward before bringing it down. Guitarist Jonny Buckland is not a speed guitarist; rather, in the grandiose tradition of Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, U2's the Edge or Oasis' Noel Gallagher, he played patiently, framing each note and riff with lots of dramatic space. Nor did bassist Guy Berryman overplay. That role was left to the myriad backing recordings the band used to fatten its sound. The quartet's latest trick, honed with Eno, is to cobble together bits of what sound like different songs into epic statements. In another time and place, this might've been called progressive rock, but with Coldplay it's more about creating contrasts and mood swings than showing off their instrumental technique. This approach worked particularly well on "42," which veered from Coldplay's balladeer comfort zone into more dissident terrain and then back again. If there's a weakness, it's that Coldplay tries to create a sense of profundity where there isn't any. What's with the French Revolution-era painting as a backdrop and the tattered neo-military get-ups? They're really nothing more than eye candy, just like the green lasers and giant orbs that doubled as video screens. Martin's lyrics toss around big concepts, but he's best when he sticks to good, old-fashioned heartbreak as a subject. Not that it mattered. In an arena, it's all about creating an event. And Coldplay did so; it sang two acoustic songs amid the audience in the first balcony, and two more on a small stage on the floor. It also turned the audience into eager accomplices for " Lost," which was performed twice for a future video. The song warns against taking anything for granted. It's advice Coldplay has taken to heart as it works the big rooms. http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-coldplay-ovn-0724jul24,0,2169831.story

that'd depend on how badly scared they are!! :P be a nice headline though. Coldplay fan injured in the line of duty. so dedicated, attends concert in full body cast after being run over by the band

they could just be being awkward. the full seated plan for the MEN shows seats behind the stage but they never sell those seats

standing in the middle of the gate with the sign might stop them :laugh3:

Good evening. We can reveal that an Epiphone Sheraton II guitar, signed by the members of Coldplay, is being auctioned on eBay in aid of The GRAMMY Foundation and MusiCares. This auction will run until July 31st. Click here to find out more or to make a bid. It would look very smart in your living room, next to the telly. Anchorman http://www.coldplay.com/newsdetail.php?id=75

a new shade of mascara? you mean there's more than black, brown & navy? and why would I want to spend the price of an album on mascara anyways??? thats one very expensive mascara

So, how's my favourite Coldplay stalkers getting on today?